Alien Giant Schistosome has a posse

Stocks Rally on Plan for Government Equity Infusions, Continued Pursuit of Evil Shorts OK, now, stay with me here, and I'll try to explain it, with the help of Earl over here. Fortunately, Earl is insured by Mutual of Ohama AIG the full faith and credit of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, or this could be dangerous. OK, now, Earl represents civilisation. Now, notice the alien schistosome that has leapt onto Earl's face and knocked him down, making him appear to be stone-dead. The giant schistosome is Too Big to Fail, and that's all you need to know about that. OK, now here comes Hank, and he says, we must cut this alien pod-thing from Earl's face, and he nicks it a bit (now, that represents Lehman) and it bleeds a weird molecular acid and generally via alien sign language makes it known that if anyone tries to cut it off, it will turn into a Black Hole, kill Earl, me, and Hank, and then drop straight thru the center of the Earth and kill a bunch of Chinese people and then come back here and so on. Not Good. OK, so Hank says, clearly we cannot remove this Alien Fruiting Body from Earl's face without killing everyone, and so we must Obey. Giant Schistosome 3 KG 700 cm has a posse OBEY!